Student Name: Bader Mohammed Al-Wardi

Date: 7/3/2011

The Website Name: Science With Me

The Address of the site:

http://www.sciencewithme.com/

Name, Type, and Date of Publication of Software:

The website called "Science With Me". It is an interactive online science community for kids, teachers, parents and home-schoolers. This site has so much to offer from easy to understand free (Learn about science) articles to downloadable science animations, science coloring books, science worksheets and songs .This site was piloted in 2003 at the Princeton Academy of the Sacred Heart in Princeton. This site includes two main bars. The first contain eight links such as Home, Science Shop, Science with Mom, Testimonials, About us, Contact us. The second one includes, Human Body, Animals, Plants, Earth Science, Astronomy, Physics, Chemistry and Famous Scientists.

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TECH 4211 Educational Software/Website Evaluation

Screen Shoot of Website:The following are some screen shoots of this website:

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Instructions:

Using the criteria below, evaluate an educational software or website. Use the categories below and assign a number value to each assessment using the scale of 1-10, with 1 being the lowest and 10 being the highest. Following each category, provide your comments.

1-Correctness: (Number Score) 8Comments: The Information and Skills in Science With Me website is meet the specific requirements of every one interested on science domain whether elementary schools students or teachers.

2-Reliability: (Number Score) 10 Comments: Science With Me website has highest reliability because all its information and skills are accurate, correct and up to date. Last up date is on 7 February 2011.

3-Efficiency: (Number Score) 8Comments: The efficiency of the Science With Me website is approximately high because the information and skills included in it is aimed to elementary age children and as a result, these information and skills can applicable to the future career of graduate.

4-Integrity: (Number Score) 10Comments: The integrity of Science With Me website is highest because it enable users to join to it and make their own account and then participate in the discussion topic and add their own subjects. So, this website forbids unauthorized access to your own account, subjects and discussion.

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5-Usability: (Number Score) 9Comments: This website contain science movies and songs, free science coloring sheets, free science worksheets, fun science projects and stories integrated with video, audio and fun, simple explained photos. So, the learning by this website is very interesting and it meets different learning styles.

6-Maintainability: (Number Score) 10Comments: Science With Me Website provides contact us page from which the users can add their own questions, addition, clarifications, feedback and opinions.

7-Testability (Number Score) 4Comments: The Science With Me website’s testability is low because after each studied topic there is no specific exercises that can measure student’s understanding, knowledge and skills.

8-Expandability: (Number Score) 8Comments: This website to some extent flexible because its language is very simple, understandable and meets elementary children age. Also, its navigation between pages and subjects is very easy and the users can get the information needed immediately.

9-Portability, reusability and interoperability (Number Score) 9Comments: The information and skills which presented and included in this website is applicable with other fields because it approximately cover all topics in science domain beginning from Human Body until Famous Scientists and all these information, skills and tasks can be applicable with those in school.

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